NYTALKS, a statewide school leadership training initiative aimed at superintendents and principals in public and private K-12 schools, is adding 1,100 Palm Tungsten T2 handhelds to the three-year program, Palm, Inc. announced today. The purchase is funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

RE: gates buying palms??

I don't see why everyone finds this story so shocking. This happens quite often. Microsoft's donation funds are used on many competing products. Some schools have purchased Macs or even servers and workstations running Linux. Big deal.

RE: Very nice of Bill

RE: Very nice of Bill

While I enjoy a good bash of Bill as much as the next Palm powered person, this is one he ought to get a break on. First, I strongly suspect that marriage and fatherhood has, like many who have gone before him and the fact that he is no longer 23 has changed his outlook on the world. Also, like it or not he won the software wars of the last 20 years. What do you do for an encore? He could do much worse.

Also, on the hardware purchase, the foundation can't really tie the purchase of Micrsoft products and OS to a grant for VERY arcane reasons of tax and 501c3 rules and law since the grantor (Bill) has a vested interest. Anyway, if the group had purchased PPC, people would slam Gates for putting strings on the gift. Its a Catch-22.

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